Cool Science

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about earthquakes and vibrations. Martin explains that there are two different types of vibrations that can move from the underground to the surface.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about the human skeleton. Martin explains the difference between a baby skeleton that has about 270 bones which fuse together as we get older so that an adult has about 206 bones. Martin also explains what a bone is made of and how each bone in your body is classified.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about Moon rocks and meteorites. Martin explains the difference between stony- and iron-meteorites and how fast they move in the atmosphere so that they can be seen in the night sky.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about sea stars and how they are often incorrectly called star fish. Martin explains how they're not really fish and that they have an external skeleton called an exoskeleton made of calcium.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about a new traveling exhibition called The Weakening Web which contains many dioramas explaining extinction and ecology (the science of how organisms relate to each other, to the biological components of plants and animals, and to the non-living components like air/water/sand).

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about engineering and engineers. Martin shows off a plastic track and rolled a marble down it to explain the concepts of gravity and velocity.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - In this week's episode of Cool Science Monday, Martin Fisher from Science Central talks about the upcoming scout program on the science of flight (01/22) and performs another Bernoulli's Principle experiment with toilet paper and a leaf blower.